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Susan Edwards: Fluent Aphasia.(Book review)
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Susan Edwards: Fluent Aphasia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xii + 230 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-79107-6.
Over the last several decades, a large part of aphasia research has focussed on persons with Broca's aphasia and agrammatism, although these people are relatively rare in the clinical setting, comprising perhaps 1-2% of the aphasic clients seen. In her book, Fluent Aphasia, Susan Edwards notes that fluent aphasics comprise approximately 80% of the patients se...
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